We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution

"Provides a focused explanation of the reasons the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first federal constitution, went lurching toward collapse." -Jack Rakove, Pulitzer Prize winner, The Washington Post

In 1783, as the Revolutionary War came to a close, Alexander Hamilton resigned in disgust from the Continental Congress after it refused to consider a fundamental reform of the Articles of Confederation. Just four years later, that same government collapsed, and Congress grudgingly agre...